Month: August 2015 | BxArts Factory

Thank you Boogie Down People!

Arts in the Community, Boogie on the Boulevard

The Boogie on the Boulevard 2015 was a tremendous success! More than 7,000 people participated in the three Sundays and enjoyed of many activities offered by numerous organizations! BxArts Factory is so grateful to have being one of the many groups that helped this community effort be realized. We participated as a partner and helped coordinate the activities in the BxArts Factory Block! We have a tremendous amount of people to thank!

First we would like to express our gratitude to Laura Ayala, Lauren Click, Hatuey Ramos-Fermin and Elizabeth Hamby for their effortless commitment to making this event happen. With them came an incredible amount of great people from the Bronx Museum of the Arts and Transportation Alternatives! We specially would like to thank the many volunteers, artists and organizations that helped us made the art block a place full of community, creativity and colorful bright smiles!

Thank you so very much to:
·         ¡El Barrio Pinta!
·         Artist & Craftsman
·         Beauty Box Performance, Cat Del Buono
·         Blick Art Materials
·         Bronx Heroes Comics
·         Casita Maria Center for Arts and Education
·         Collage, Ana Rebeca Castillo
·         Comic Culture, Planet Bronx Productions
·         Crocheting for Adults, Ingrid Gomez
·         Eve’s Fault
·         Finger Knitting for Kids, Ingrid Gomez
·         Handmade book making, Taller Asiray, Yarisa Colon
·         Ismael Checo
·         Mobile Print Power, Patrick Rowe
·         Museum on the Go Bus, Bronx Children’s Museum
·         Pelliza performance, Gina Goico
·         Skate Deck Live Painting by various artists: Alex Fernandez, Alexis Mendoza, Elizabeth Ortiz, Giannina Gutierrez, Karen Pedrosa, Laura Alvarez, Leo Mojica, Louis Nieves, Natalia Zamparini, Shak Castillo, Steven McKenzie, Vanezza Cruz, Xavier Figueroa, Yazmeen Collazo
·         Skateboard Demonstration & classes, Heavenbound7 Sk8 Shop
·         The Bronx Museum of the Arts
·         The Gift to Empower
·         The POINT CDC
·         Trevon Blondet, Photographer
·         Women in Comics, WinC Collective
·         Yana Studios, Kids Yoga and Mandalas creation
·         Zulu beadwork, Zola Dube

Hope to have you all on the Boogie next year!!!

August 20, 2015/by BxArts Factory

Film Presentation of the Documentary Travesia (Journey)

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BxArts Factory Film Screening Presentation
In Collaboration with Bronx Hispanic Festival
and Momentos de… Organization

Lincoln Hospital Auditorium
234 E 149th St @ Morris Ave, Bronx, NY 10451 (entrance to auditorium at Morris Ave)
August 27th 2015 Time: 7:00 pm
Get your free tickets HERE

BxArts Factory in collaboration with the Hispanic Bronx Festival and Momentos de… Organization have the pleasure to invite you the film screening presentation of the documentary titled Travesia (Journey) of the director Alexander Gonzáles Tascón at the Lincoln Hospital Auditorium on August 27th 2015. As part of the evening programing we also are going to screen Umbrella House a 10 minutes film by Catalina Santamaría. This spacial event would not be possible without the support and collaboration of Clara Lopera Sánchez and Marcela Charry of Momentos de… Organization and the Luis Stephenberg Executive Director of the Bronx Hispanic festival.

TRAVESIA (JOURNEY)
2014. 52 min. (Documentary)
DIRECTOR: Alexander Gonzáles Tascón
LANGUAGE: Spanish with English subtitles
SYNOPSIS: The thick jungle of Colombia’s Pacific, by the Anchicayá river is the scenario of the documentary Travesía. In Travesía, Robinson and his family embark in a journey to extract wood from the deep jungle. The nature puts obstacles and difficulties in their way to achieve their goal. They also have to dodge the legal issues of wood exploitation in the region and finally they have to put their navigating skills learned since childhood, to transport the logs down the Anchicayá river, all the way to Buenaventura. Travesía is a story of survival of a family in rural Colombia.

Trailer: http://youtu.be/5teFQCUUnq8 https://youtu.be/0V-G2TQuY5I

UMBRELLA HOUSE
2013. 10 min. (Short Film)
DIRECTOR: Catalina Santamaría
LANGUAGE: English
SYNOPSIS: Umbrella House reveals the stories of the squatter community – most of them immigrants – that took over abandoned buildings in the Lower East Side of Manhattan reconstructed them and made them into homes.

Evening Program:
-7:00 pm Presentation/Introduction
-7:15 pm. Screening of UMBRELLA HOUSE
-7:30 pm. Screening of JOURNEY
-8:30 pm. Q/A with the filmmakers (time will depend on the length of the discussion, but I will try to keep it to a hour)
-After the filmmakers’ Q/A refreshments will be serve outside of the auditorium.

Tickets are FREE but necessary to attend the screening

August 20, 2015/by BxArts Factory

Second Sunday of Boogie on the Boulevard

Arts in the Community, Boogie on the Boulevard

Come to enjoy with your community another Sunday free of cars at the Concourse
This Sunday more than 20 BxArts Factory artists will be painting live during the second Boogie on the Boulevard and many other organizations and artists will be joining us to make the best of your summer.
This is the amazing line up we have for you!
Saturday 9th

Come find our booth on Sunday between 166 st and McClellan st

-Art Workshops, Blick Art Materials

-Art Workshops, Bronx Children’s Museum
-Back to School Drive, The Gift to Empower
-Button Making, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
-Crocheting for Adults, Ingrid Gomez
-Earrings/beaded spoons, LAGDesigns
-Finger Knitting for Kids, Ingrid Gomez – 2:00 p.m.
-Free Open Library
-Handmade book making, Taller Asiray
-Live painting/collage, Ana Rebeca Castillo
-Live Painting, Ismael Checo
-Live Painting, Ronald Cadet
-Live world Jazz Fusion, Dr. Drum & Gasa (Andrew Freedman Home Artist)
-Open Mic – 1:00 p.m.
-Pelliza performance, Gina Goico
-Skateboard Demonstration & clases, Heavenbound7 Sk8 Shop
-Skate Deck Live Painting, BxArts Factory, Various artists
(Alex Fernandez, Alexis Mendoza, Elizabeth Ortiz, Fareeda Gomez, Giannina Gutierrez, Ivan Gaete, Karen Pedrosa, Laura Alvarez, Leo Mojica, Louis Nieves, Melissa Calderon, Natalia Zamparini, Osjua Newton, Ray Felix, Shak Castillo, Steven McKenzie, Vanezza Cruz, Xavier Figueroa, Yazmeen Collazo)
-Zulu beadwork, Zola Dube

August 15, 2015/by BxArts Factory

The Last Boogie of the Year!

Arts in the Community, Boogie on the Boulevard

Join us this Sunday for the last Boogie on the BoulevardWe will be exhibiting all the skateboards painted live last Sunday during the event. Come with your bike, skateboard, roller skates, hot air ballon!
We want to share another wonderful day with all of you at the Grand Concourse, between 166 st and McClellan st. Find us there from 12 to 4 p.m.
Bring your Yankees fitted cap to contribute to a very interesting project that, Bronx Photo League member, Trevon Blondet has started.

Sunday 16th
• Art Workshops, Artist & Craftsman
• Art Workshops, Bronx Children’s Museum
• Art Workshops, The POINT CDC
• CommuniTea, Michele Brody (Andrew Freedman Home artist)
• Free Open Library
• International Family Affair, The Bronx Museum of the Arts
• Mobile Print Power, Patrick Rowe
• Live Drawing and Writing Workshop, Women in Comics, WinC Collective
• Live Painting & Dj, ¡El Barrio Pinta!
• Eve’s Fault – 1:00 p.m. Main Stage
• Pelliza performance, Gina Goico
• Zulu beadwork, Zola Dube

August 15, 2015/by BxArts Factory

Ready to Start Our #ArtsBizInc Journey with NYFA

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The New York Foundation for the Arts has officially announced our participation in the Arts Business Incubator Program! This 1st Cohort was selected from a pool of 119 applications! The seven amazing organizations selected are as follows:

1. ArtWalk.City
2. BxArts Factory
3. The Caribbean Film Academy, Inc.
4. Center for Italian Modern Art
5. Musical Theater Factory
6. Syncopated City Dance School
7. Young Artisans In Business (YAIB)
During the 3 years in the program we will receive individualized mentorship and education opportunities that will secure our success in the field! We congratulate our cohort and look forward to this amazing journey with them! To read more about the program please click here.

August 12, 2015/by BxArts Factory

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